Editing Forgotten Realms (section)

=== 1990–2000 ===
{{Timeline of release years
|title= Forgotten Realms video games
|1988 = ''[[Pool of Radiance]]''
|1989a = ''[[Hillsfar]]''
|1989b = ''[[Curse of the Azure Bonds]]''
|1990a = ''[[Secret of the Silver Blades]]''
|1990b = ''[[Eye of the Beholder (video game)|Eye of the Beholder]]''
|1991a = ''[[Eye of the Beholder II: The Legend of Darkmoon]]''
|1991b = ''[[Pools of Darkness]]''
|1991c = ''[[Neverwinter Nights (MMORPG)|Neverwinter Nights]]''
|1991d = ''[[Gateway to the Savage Frontier]]''
|1992 = ''[[Treasures of the Savage Frontier]]''
|1993a = ''[[Forgotten Realms: Unlimited Adventures]]''
|1993b = ''[[Dungeon Hack]]''
|1993c = ''[[Eye of the Beholder III: Assault on Myth Drannor]]''
|1994 = ''[[Menzoberranzan (video game)|Menzoberranzan]]''
|1996 = ''[[Blood & Magic]]''
|1997 = ''[[Descent to Undermountain]]''
|1998 = ''[[Baldur's Gate (video game)|Baldur's Gate]]''
|2000a = ''[[Baldur's Gate II: Shadows of Amn]]''
|2000b = ''[[Icewind Dale]]''
|2001a = ''[[Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance]]''
|2001b = ''[[Pool of Radiance: Ruins of Myth Drannor]]''
|2002a = ''[[Icewind Dale II]]''
|2002b = ''[[Neverwinter Nights (2002 video game)|Neverwinter Nights]]''
|2002c = ''[[Eye of the Beholder (2002 video game)|Dungeons & Dragons: Eye of the Beholder]]''
|2004a = ''[[Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance II]]''
|2005b = ''[[Forgotten Realms: Demon Stone]]''
|2006 = ''[[Neverwinter Nights 2]]''
|2011a = ''[[Dungeons & Dragons: Daggerdale]]''
|2011b = ''Heroes of Neverwinter''
|2013 = ''[[Neverwinter (video game)|Neverwinter]]''
|2014 = ''[[Lords of Waterdeep (video game)|Lords of Waterdeep]]''
|2015 = ''[[Sword Coast Legends]]''
|2017 = ''Tales from Candlekeep: Tomb of Annihilation''
|2018 = ''[[Idle Champions of the Forgotten Realms]]''
|2019 = ''Warriors of Waterdeep''
|2021 = ''[[Dungeons & Dragons: Dark Alliance]]''
|2023 = ''[[Baldur's Gate III]]''
}}

To transition the Forgotten Realms from first edition ''AD&D'' to the ruleset's second edition, a story involving the gods being cast down was planned by TSR management from the top-down and started with ''[[Hall of Heroes (Forgotten Realms)|Hall of Heroes]]'' (1989) and continued with a three-adventure ''[[The Avatar Series|Avatar]]'' series (1989) and a three-novel ''[[The Avatar Series|Avatar]]'' series (1989), and some stories in the comic book.<ref name="designers70s"/>{{rp|84}} TSR adjusted the timeline of the Forgotten Realms by advancing the calendar one year forward to 1358 DR, referring to the gap as the Time of Troubles.<ref name=":5" />

In early 1990, the hardcover ''[[Forgotten Realms Adventures]]'' by Grubb and Greenwood was released, which introduced the setting to ''AD&D'' 2nd edition;<ref name="HW"/>{{rp|99–100}} the book also detailed how the Time of Troubles had changed the setting.<ref name="APC">{{cite thesis |last=Canavan |first=Aidan-Paul |date=April 2011 |title=Looting the Dungeon: The Quest for the Genre Fantasy Mega-Text |type=PhD |url=http://fantasyliterature.pbworks.com/w/file/fetch/99772099/looting%20the%20dungeon%20-%20canavan.pdf}}</ref>{{rp|139}} ''[[The Ruins of Undermountain]]'' (1991) was one of the first published mega-dungeons.<ref name="designers70s"/>{{rp|93}} The [[Al-Qadim]] setting by Jeff Grubb was released in 1992, and the setting was added to the southern part of the Forgotten Realms.<ref name="designers70s"/>{{rp|95}} In July 1990, the [[RPGA]] Network's ''[[Polyhedron (magazine)|Polyhedron Newszine]]'' began publishing a monthly column by Greenwood entitled "The Everwinking Eye" detailing various locations and personalities in the Realms. The Network used the Forgotten Realms city of [[Ravens Bluff]] as the setting for their first [[Living campaigns|living campaign]].<ref name="designers70s"/>{{rp|93}} Official RPGA support for this product line included the ''Living City'' module series. A number of sub-settings of the Forgotten Realms were briefly supported in the early 1990s. Three more modules were produced for the [[Kara-Tur]] setting. [[The Horde (boxed set)|''The Horde'' boxed set]], released in 1990, detailed the Hordelands, which featured a series of three modules. The ''[[Maztica Campaign Set]]'', released in 1991, detailed the continent of [[Maztica]].

The original gray boxed set was revised in 1993 to update it to ''AD&D'' 2nd edition, with the release of a new ''Forgotten Realms Campaign Setting'' boxed set containing three books (''A Grand Tour of the Realms'', ''Running the Realms'', and ''Shadowdale'') and various "monster supplements".<ref name="FRCS2">{{cite book | last1=Greenwood | first1=Ed | author-link1=Ed Greenwood | first2= Don | last2= Bingle | year=1993 | title=Forgotten Realms Campaign Setting | publisher=[[TSR, Inc.]] | isbn=978-1-56076-617-9 | author-link2=Don Bingle}}</ref> Additional material for the setting was released steadily throughout the 1990s. Forgotten Realms novels, such as the ''[[Legacy of the Drow]]'' series, the first three books of ''[[The Elminster Series]]'', and numerous [[anthologies]] were also released throughout the 1990s, which led to the setting being hailed as one of the most successful shared fantasy universes of the 1990s.<ref>{{cite book | last=Oxobyn| first=Marc | year=2003 | title=The 1990s | publisher=[[Greenwood Publishing Group]] | isbn=978-0-313-31615-9 | url-access=registration | url=https://archive.org/details/1990s0000oxob}}</ref> By the first quarter of 1996, TSR had published sixty-four novels set in the Forgotten Realms out of the 242 novels set in ''AD&D'' worlds.<ref name=":6">{{Cite book|last=Mackay|first=Daniel|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/45575501|title=The Fantasy Role-Playing Game: A New Performing Art|publisher=McFarland & Co|year=2001|isbn=0-7864-0815-4|location=Jefferson, N.C.|oclc=45575501}}</ref>{{rp|20}} These novels in turn sparked interest in role-playing by new gamers.<ref>{{cite journal | last=Punday | first=Daniel | year=2005 | title=Creative Accounting; Role-playing Games, Possible-World Theory, and the Agency of the Imagination | journal=Poetics Today | volume=26 | issue=1 | pages=113–139 | doi=10.1215/03335372-26-1-113 | citeseerx=10.1.1.118.7964 | issn=0333-5372 }}</ref>

Numerous Forgotten Realms [[video game]]s were released between 1990 and 2000. ''[[Eye of the Beholder (computer game)|Eye of the Beholder]]'' for [[MS-DOS]] was released in 1990,<ref>[http://www.gamespot.com/pc/rpg/eyeofthebeholder/index.html?tag=result;title;0 Eye of the Beholder for MS-DOS]. Gamespot. Retrieved on December 1, 2008.</ref> which was followed by two sequels: the first in 1991,<ref>[http://www.gamespot.com/pc/rpg/eyeofthebeholder2tlod/index.html?tag=result;title;6 Eye of the Beholder II: The Legend of Darkmoon]. Gamespot. Retrieved on December 1, 2008.  {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081208115021/http://www.gamespot.com/pc/rpg/eyeofthebeholder2tlod/index.html?tag=result%3Btitle%3B6 |date=December 8, 2008}}</ref> and the second in 1992.<ref>[http://www.gamespot.com/pc/rpg/eyeofthebeholder3aomd/index.html?tag=result;title;8 Eye of the Beholder III: Assault on Myth Drannor]. Gamespot. Retrieved on December 1, 2008.  {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081207172045/http://www.gamespot.com/pc/rpg/eyeofthebeholder3aomd/index.html?tag=result%3Btitle%3B8 |date=December 7, 2008}}</ref> All three games were re-released for MS-DOS compatible operating systems on a single disk in 1995.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.mobygames.com/game/eye-of-the-beholder-trilogy |title=Eye of the Beholder Trilogy for DOS |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081228200225/http://www.mobygames.com/game/eye-of-the-beholder-trilogy |archive-date=December 28, 2008 |publisher=Mobygames}}</ref> Another 1991 release was ''[[Neverwinter Nights (AOL game)|Neverwinter Nights]]'' on [[AOL|America Online]], the first graphical massively multiplayer online role-playing game ([[MMORPG]]).<ref>[http://www.mcvuk.com/press-releases/34298/Stormfront-Studios-Honored-At-59th-Annual-Emmy-Technology-Awards-For-Creating-First-Graphical-Online-Role-Playing-Game Stormfront Studios Honored at 59th Annual Emmy Technology Awards For Creating First Graphical Online Role-Playing Game] Mcuvk. Retrieved on December 1, 2008.</ref> In 1998, ''[[Baldur's Gate (video game)|Baldur's Gate]]'', the first in a line of popular role-playing video games<ref>{{cite news | first=Aaron | last=Curtis | title=Gamers' Corner; Visiting Worlds You Won't Want to Leave | date=1999-04-19 | url =http://www.latimes.com/ | work =[[The Los Angeles Times]] | page =C4 | access-date = 2008-12-04}}</ref> developed by [[BioWare]] and "considered by most pundits as the hands-down best PC roleplaying game ever", was released.<ref name="FRGB"/> The game was followed by a sequel, ''[[Baldur's Gate II: Shadows of Amn]]'', in 2000 and ''[[Icewind Dale (series)|Icewind Dale]]'', a separate game that utilized the same [[game engine]] as ''Baldur's Gate''. ''[[Pool of Radiance: Ruins of Myth Drannor]]'' was released in 2001. Several popular Forgotten Realms characters such as [[Drizzt Do'Urden]] and [[Elminster]] made minor appearances in these games.